{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0561.tlg001.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0561.tlg001.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0561.tlg001.local001","title":"Δάφνις καὶ Χλόη","titleGreek":"Δάφνις καὶ Χλόη","alternateTitles":[],"author":"Longus","authorityName":"LONGUS Scr. Erot.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0561-longus/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0561-longus/","editors":["Rudolf Hercher"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Erotici Scriptores Graeci","edition":null,"publisher":"Teubner","place":"Leipzig","date":"1858","volume":"1","series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":null,"url":null},"provenance":{"authority":"Perseus Project","sponsors":["Perseus Project, Tufts University"],"funders":["Google Digital Humanities Awards Program"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Lisa Cerrato","Rashmi Singhal","Bridget Almas"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_U5a2is9oylUC/page/n303","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Longus. Δάφνις καὶ Χλόη. ed. Rudolf Hercher. Erotici Scriptores Graeci, Leipzig, Teubner, 1858. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0561.tlg001.local001","excerpt":"Ἐν Λέσβῳ θηρῶν ἐν ἄλσει Νυμφῶν θέαμα εἶδον κάλλιστον ὧν εἶδον· εἰκόνα, γραφήν, ἱστορίαν ἔρωτος. Καλὸν μὲν καὶ τὸ ἄλσος, πολύδενδρον, ἀνθηρόν, κατάρρυτον· μία πηγὴ πάντα ἔτρεφε, καὶ τὰ ἄνθη καὶ τὰ δένδρα· ἀλλ’ ἡ γραφὴ τερπνοτέρα καὶ τέχνην ἔχουσα περιττὴν καὶ τύχην ἐρωτικήν· ὥστε πολλοὶ καὶ τῶν ξένων κατὰ φήμην ᾔεσαν, τῶν μὲν Νυμφῶν ἱκέται, τῆς δὲ εἰκόνος θεαταί. Γυναῖκες ἐπʼ αὐτῆς τίκτουσαι καὶ ἄλλαι σπαργάνοις κοσμοῦσαι· παιδία ἐκκείμενα, ποίμνια τρέφοντα· ποιμένες ἀναιρούμενοι, νέοι συντιθέμενοι· λῃστῶν καταδρομή, πολεμίων ἐμβολή. Πολλὰ ἄλλα καὶ πάντα ἐρωτικὰ ἰδόντα με καὶ θαυμάσαντα πόθος ἔσχεν ἀντιγράψαι τῇ γραφῇ· καὶ ἀναζητησάμενος ἐξηγητὴν τῆς εἰκόνος τέτταρας βίβλους ἐξεπονησάμην, ἀνάθημα μὲν Ἔρωτι καὶ Νύμφαις καὶ Πανί, κτῆμα δὲ τερπνὸν πᾶσιν ἀνθρώποις, ὃ καὶ νοσοῦντα ἰάσεται, καὶ λυπούμενον παραμυθήσεται, τὸν ἐρασθέντα ἀναμνήσει, τὸν οὐκ ἐρασθέντα προπαιδεύσει. Πάντως γὰρ…","divisions":[{"label":"Book 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0561.tlg001.local001/#tlg0561-tlg001-local001-1"},{"label":"Book 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0561.tlg001.local001/#tlg0561-tlg001-local001-2"},{"label":"Book 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0561.tlg001.local001/#tlg0561-tlg001-local001-3"},{"label":"Book 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0561.tlg001.local001/#tlg0561-tlg001-local001-4"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0561.tlg001.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0561.tlg001.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0561/tlg001/local001.json.gz"}}